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Anonymous wrote the following post at 20-01-2006 11:03 PM: It is incredibly idiotic to critisize the US for not having as many different accents as the UK. The US has a lot of accents considering all the factors. Accents don't develop overnight. Colonists didn't start settling here until the...

It is incredibly idiotic to critisize the US for not having as many different accents as the UK. The US has a lot of accents considering all the factors. Accents don't develop overnight. Colonists didn't start settling here until the 1600s and the US has only been a country for 230 years. States...

I think it depends on your plans. If you are more likely to be going to the US or communicating with Americans or people who have learned American English, learning that kind of English seems like a good idea. If you think you are more likely to visit the UK or communicate with British people,...

ok, Im Mexican, my native language is not english. but let me say first that my accent is, for obvious geographical reasons very american alike. Second, I love british accent, i 've heard american english everyday for so many years, thats why i prefer british accent, and not only me, but most...

ok, Im Mexican, my native language is not english. but let me say first that my accent is, for obvious geographical reasons very american alike. Second, I love british accent, i 've heard american english everyday for so many years, thats why i prefer british accent, and not only me, but most...

My dictionary says: In American English "sports" is used to refer collectively to all athletic contests. Many of British people use the collective noun "sport" in this context. Americans find this usage of "sport" to be rather formal. (BrE) I like sport/sports. (AmE) I like sports. paco

Sorry, this will probably be a really long post. My mission? To dispell false notions about American English First, we do NOT say "drug" as the past tense of "drag." It's dragged! There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this: Young children who have not yet mastered the grammatical...

i like ur post Well... people (people i know) make up words all the time. destinys child has a song called bootylicous(sp) and i didnt think that was a word,yet i understood it, but then i heard that they(the dictionary ppl i guess) added that to our dictionary, lol so now it is a word. U might...

It's actually only rather pompous British speakers who contract the internal sounds in words like terrorist. Most of us pronounce it thoroughly, though we maybe do not labour it so very much as some southern American speakers. As for words like school, there is a great deal of variation. It...

Oh no, I meant no irony, really! Actually, I trust Webster's dictionaries and I have an old edition of their "Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary" which I use very often. What I meant was that not every colloquial, or very infirmal, expression will always be found in a dictionary. Probably not...